Hey it’s Hannah and today we have a lot less writing for you — because we want to try something different. We’ve been really enjoying having a space to blog our baseball musings, but we miss being even more off-the-cuff with it all.

Here’s a little backstory, if you care. When I first launched Bandwagon as a video series, there were three distinct segments: a semi-scripted team section, a fully-scripted monologue, and the totally unscripted Fan/Not A Fan section. Those extemporaneous rulings on topics both baseball and not ended up being some of my favorite moments from the show. It’s definitely when we laughed the most during production. So even though I love nuance, we’re bringing back the binary ruling system for a Substack video later today!

I feel like you can probably intuit the format, but just in case: we’ll discuss whether we are a Fan or Not a Fan of phenomena in baseball and beyond. Please drop suggestions for topics in the comments, the chat, or at hellobandwagon@gmail.com.

We’re still figuring out the mechanics of Substack video so bear with us today and we hope to make this a more regular feature going forward.

Things we’re chatting about

• Tomorrow, the Savannah Bananas will play Clemson University’s 81,500-seat Memorial Stadium — which they sold out in a matter of hours when tickets were made available in January. It will be “Memorial Stadium’s first sellout for a non-NCAA event since George Strait performed a concert there in 1999.” The Bananas are huge right now — airing on ESPN, boasting three million followers on Instagram (which puts them right between the Mets at 1.7M and the Yankees at 4M). Objectively, I think this is cool! But I also don’t feel their increased cultural relevance in my baseball circles, like at all. I don’t think I know anyone who has been to a Savannah Bananas game or who considers themselves a fan (do they have fans?). If this describes you, though, I would love to hear about it! Tell me about your Bananas experience! –HK

• The Mets drew the largest seven-game homestand crowds of the Citi Field-era this past week; and rewarded the 267,000+ fans with a perfect 7-0 record in that span. The vibes are high in Queens and New York is feeling like a Mets town! But, inspired by this fun fact, I decided to check out the attendance numbers to date for all the teams and a couple things. First, congrats to the Padres — mostly for being ahead of the Dodgers in the actual standings, but also for coming in second to the Dodgers in ticket sales. And second of all, you will never guess who is fifth in attendance per game. It goes Dodgers, Padres, Phillies, Yankees, _____, Mets. Go ahead, guess1. —HK

• Over at Opta Analyst, I wrote about Mookie Betts’ unprecedented transition to shortstop to highlight how, in this case, “unprecedented” is not at all an exaggeration. Players simply don’t move up the defensive spectrum to shortstop in their thirties.

  Something else struck me in researching that story, though: The Dodgers currently employ four of the 91 players in major-league history who have logged 100+ games both at shortstop and in the outfield. In the very early going this year, the all-powerful Dodgers’ most valuable player has been a different member of that club — Tommy Edman. Playing a mix of second base and center field, Edman is one of five best defenders in the game so far, by Statcast’s estimation. And oh yeah, he’s crushing the ball. Already more than halfway to his career-high in homers, Edman is running improved exit velocities and doing more damage while remaining nearly impossible to strike out. Whether it was vision or a general bet on this profile, the Dodgers snagged a huge contributor for a very small price. —ZC